Outside the ward and clinic: Healing the aboriginal body

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 226-245

  McCoy, Brian F ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal health; Healing; Traditional healers

Indexed keywords

EID: 40449136994     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: 15525414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241607312486     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Achterberg, Jeanne. 1985. Imagery in healing: Shamanism and modern medicine. Boston: New Science Library.
2. Aldhouse-Green, Miranda, and Stephen Aldhouse-Green. 2005. The quest for the shaman: Shape-shifters, sorcerers and spirit-healers of ancient Europe. London: Thames and Hudson.
3. Bell, Diane. 1982. Women's changing role in health maintenance in a central Australian community. In Body, land and spirit: Health and healing in Aboriginal community, ed. Janice Reid, 197-224. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press.
4. Cawte, John. 1996. Medicine is the law: Studies in psychiatric anthropology of Australian tribal societies. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii.
5. Chelala, Csar 2007. Health in the Andes. Americas (July-August): 54-56.
6. Devitt, Jeannie, and Anthony McMasters. 1998. Living on medicine: A cultural study of end-stage renal disease among Aboriginal people. Alice Springs: IAD Press.
7. Elkin, A.P. 1977. Aboriginal men of high degree. 2 nd ed. St Lucia: University of Queensland.
8. Finkler, Kaja. 1981. A comparative study of health seekers: Or, why do some people go to doctors rather than to spiritualist healers? Medical Anthropology 5: 383-424.
9. Flood, Josephine. 2006. The original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal people. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin.
10. Garro, Linda. 1994. Individual or societal responsibility? Explanations of diabetes in an Anishinabe (Ojibway) community. Social Science and Medicine 40 (1). 37-46.
11. Gordon, Deborah. 1988. Tenacious assumptions in Western medicine. In Biomedicine examined, ed. Margaret Lock and Deborah Gordon, 19-56. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.
12. Green, Edward. 1999. Indigenous theories of contagious disease. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press.
13. Hamilton, Annette. 1974. The traditionally oriented community. In Better health for Aborigines?, ed. Basil Hetzel, Malcolm Dobbin, Lorna Lippmann, and Elizabeth Eggleston, 14-29. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press.
14. Harner, Michael. 1982. The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing. Toronto: Bantam Books.
15. Humphery, Kim, and Tarun Weeramanthri. 2001. Forgetting compliance: Aboriginal health and medical culture, with Joseph Fitz. Darwin: Northern Territory University Press.
16. Kiev, Ari, ed. 1964. Magic, faith and healing: Studies in primitive psychiatry today. New York: Free Press.
17. Kowal, Emma, and Yin Paradies. 2005. Ambivalent helpers and unhealthy choices: Public health practitioners' narratives on indigenous ill-health. Social Science & Medicine 60: 1347-57.
18. Lindenbaum, Shirley, and Margaret Lock. 1993. Knowledge, power and practice: The anthropology of medicine and everyday life. Berkeley: University of California Press.
19. Lock, Margaret, and Deborah Gordon. 1988. Biomedicine examined. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.
20. McCoy, Brian. 2004. Kanyirninpa: Health, masculinity and wellbeing of desert Aboriginal men. PhD diss., Centre for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne. http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001886/
21. - - -. 2006. Healer, clinics and Aboriginal people: Whose health and who benefits? Health Issues (Autumn): 13-16.
22. Mobbs, Robyn. 1991. In sickness and health: The sociocultural context of Aboriginal wellbeing, illness, and healing. In The health of Aboriginal Australia, ed. Janice Reid and Peggy Trompf, 292-325. Sydney: Harcourt and Brace.
23. Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women's Council Aboriginal Corporation. 2003. Ngangkari work-Anangu way: Traditional healers of Central Australia. Alice Springs: Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women's Council Aboriginal Corporation.
24. Ngangkari. 2001. Video recording, Ronin Films. Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Media Production and Australian Film Commission
25. Peile, Anthony. 1997. Body and soul: An Aboriginal view, ed. Peter Bindon. Victoria Park: Hesperian.
26. Phillips, Gregory. 2003. Addictions and healing in Aboriginal country. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
27. Reid, Janice, ed. 1982. Body, land and spirit: Health and healing in Aboriginal society. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press.
28. - - -. 1983. Sorcerers and healing spirits. Rushcutters Bay Pergamon.
29. Reid, Janice, and Peggy Trompf, eds. 1991. The health of Aboriginal Australia. Sydney: Harcourt Brace.
30. Saggers, Sherry, and Dennis Gray. 1991. Aboriginal health and society. St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin.
31. Sansom, Basil. 2001. Irruptions of the dreamings in post-colonial Australia. Oceania 72 (1). 1-32.
32. Saltonsall, Robin. 1993. Health bodies, social bodies: Men's and women's concepts and practices of health in everyday life. Social Science & Medicine 36 (1). 7-14.
33. Sargent, Carolyn, and Thomas Johnson, eds. 1996. Medical anthropology: Contemporary theory and method, revised edition. Westport: Praeger.
34. Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1994. Embodied knowledge: Thinking with the body in critical medical anthropology. In Assessing cultural anthropology, ed. Robert Borofsky, 229-42. New York: McGraw-Hill.
35. Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. 2002. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce national strategic framework. Canberra: AHMAC.
36. Teuton, Joanna, Christopher Dowrick, and Richard Bentall. 2007. How healers manage the pluralistic healing context: The perspective of indigenous, religious and allopathic healers in relation to psychosis in Uganda. Social Science and Medicine 65: 1260-73.
37. Tonkinson, Myrna. 1982. The maparn and the hospital: The selection of treatment in a remote Aboriginal community. In Body, land and spirit: Health and healing in Aboriginal society, ed. Janice Reid, 225-41. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press.
38. Turner, Victor. 1964. An Ndembu doctor in practice. In Magic, faith and healing: Studies in primitive psychiatry today, ed. Ari Kiev, 230-63. New York: Free Press.
39. Watson, Colin. 2005. Health, illness and behaviour: Warlpiri men's experiences in a central Australian community. PhD diss., School of Health Sciences, Charles Darwin University.